Soccer is Fun

Dear Soccer Families, As you probably have already your children summer camps in mind for planing, consider our 2016 Soccer Camp this summer, hosted for its 6th year by Southern Village Club in Chapel Hill. Check out our program and curriculum, each session spread over 5 full days of soccer techniques and skills development will provide great development opportunities to your child to become a greater soccer player, and team contributor. Sessions are available on the following weeks: Week 1 : June 13 – 17, Week 2 : June 20 – 24, Week 3 : July 11 – 15. Each camper will get a FREE Soccer is Fun T-Shirt, plus campers completing registration before April 2nd receive a FREE Soccer is Fun Soccer Ball. All sessions are located at Southern Village field, and include access to the Southern Village Club facility including the pool for the campers. See below, or request the brochure for more details. For more information, or to register, you may also contact Coach Pierre Monnet [Soccer.is.Fun.NC@gmail.com or (919) 260-1511], or contact Southern Village Club [http://southernvillageclub.com/] or (919) 969-8442.

About our curriculum: Learning soccer is a 4 stage developmental process: (1) Master the ball, (2) Play together – Team, (3) Play against an opponent, and (4) Play within a system – Tactic. Our curriculum addresses all 4 stages with demonstration/teaching, drills and activities, including small sided games to reinforce the players development experience. Techniques will be practiced individually and in small groups throughout the week : dribbling/shielding, tackles/challenge, passing/shooting, receiving (ground ball, air ball), combination play, heading, goalkeeping. Each day we cover both Technique (What & How) and Tactic (Where, When & Why), spending 60% on the specifics of Attack and Transition and 40% on Defense. We will spend 20% on Skills Training and 80% on Applying those skills in various conditions. A day at the soccer camp: 8:30am—10:30am : Demonstration & Individual Technical training session: Each session will be articulated around 5 periods: (1) Technical Warm-up: New technique & skill, focused on form & execution w/o pressure, (2) Small-Sided activity: Applying the new technique & skill with increasing pressure (time & space), (3) Expanded Small-Sided activity: Applying the new technique w/o restrictions on the opponents. (4) Match Conditioned Game: Applying the new technique in real game condition . (5) Laws of the Game while cooling down. 10:30am—12:00pm : Individual & Team Tactical training session: The drills & exercises will develop the Principles of Play for both Attacking and Defending: Principles of Attack : (1) Penetration, (2) Width, (3) Depth, (4) Support; Principles of Defense: (1) Chase & Delay, (2) Depth, (3) Balance, (4) Compactness. Make field BIG (Attack) vs. Make Field SMALL (Defense) 12:00pm—1:00pm : Lunch (bring bag lunch) & free time. 1:00pm—2:00pm : Ball Mastery training session: Coerver’s moves, juggling, trapping, heading, shooting and ball mastery contests. 2:00pm—3:00pm : Swimming (pool) or Pro demonstration & international pro soccer game clips analysis & discussion to exemplify the new techniques learned. 3:00pm—3:30pm : Coached small sided game. 3:30pm : Dismissal Coach Pierre Monnet, member of the National Soccer Coach Association of America, holds an NCYSA E License / Youth Level IV (Advanced Youth) NSCAA, and will coach this soccer camp. He has coached youth soccer at various level from recreational to classic travel teams for several years in Chapel Hill, NC. Thank you for sharing this information with your friends and neighbors, and get the word out, and benefit from a 10% referral discount, and I hope to see many of your children ENJOY and HAVE FUN with soccer this summer at this camp.